concretely, because you, mr. vox author, could possibly maybe just be slightly wrong about all that.
some of use are betting on things continuing, and we would like to stay alive, prosper, and maybe even get ahead whilst you are busy freaking out. or at least hedge our bets a little.
i'm too busy and tired picking up the slack to do this personally. but i wouldn't be surprised if one could take a look back through history to get an idea of whether this kind of slightly-less-than-ideal worldwide condition has ever come up before, and whether life did in fact go on...
What would a more-than-slightly-less-than-ideal worldwide condition be to you? Global thermonuclear war? Would you be still expect your emoyees to show up in office in that case?
>"Nike, for example, gave all office employees a week off earlier this year, and Bumble and LinkedIn enacted similar policies."
This bothers me quite a bit. Only office workers get off? Why not everyone? This seems like some class warfare type bullshit. Everyone is under stress, and the physical laborers may be even worse of simply due to the physical nature of their work
I agree with your points about unfairness, and that laborers are much more deserving of time off than office workers. But I wouldn't characterize it as class warfare.
In most cases, when physical labor doesn't get performed, people notice. There are consequences that ripple out, affecting other people or systems.
In most cases, when office work doesn't get performed, people don't notice. Things just stay the same.
The system rewards cheaper and faster. But that's an issue of (primarily financial) incentives, not sociocultural biases.
Fully agreed. I work in such a job (laborer), and the only thing I can figure is that giving office workers extra time off has less of an impact, whereas giving laborers off would affect production/output/service/whatever. We can't have that now, can we? Those companies did not enact this policy without their bottom line as priority, as usual.
Even if the writer sincerely believes that, literally all they have to do to find their answer is ask themselves that same question. I am pretty sure no independently wealthy person would be wasting their time writing this drivel
Indeed, even within the memories of many living people that the author can speak to right now are two events: cold war and Cuban missile crisis where the world really could have ended properly. And the second world war when seventy million humans died and countless others had irreversible damage to them.
This kind of apocalyptic thinking is also damaging to the birth rate "why have children in such a world". The irony here is that is literally how the world can end.
There's also a fallacy of the hinge of history. Everyone thinks they are living in the most important of times ever and they have always done throughout history.
fargle|4 years ago
some of use are betting on things continuing, and we would like to stay alive, prosper, and maybe even get ahead whilst you are busy freaking out. or at least hedge our bets a little.
i'm too busy and tired picking up the slack to do this personally. but i wouldn't be surprised if one could take a look back through history to get an idea of whether this kind of slightly-less-than-ideal worldwide condition has ever come up before, and whether life did in fact go on...
xg15|4 years ago
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netizen-936824|4 years ago
This bothers me quite a bit. Only office workers get off? Why not everyone? This seems like some class warfare type bullshit. Everyone is under stress, and the physical laborers may be even worse of simply due to the physical nature of their work
coolgeek|4 years ago
In most cases, when physical labor doesn't get performed, people notice. There are consequences that ripple out, affecting other people or systems.
In most cases, when office work doesn't get performed, people don't notice. Things just stay the same.
The system rewards cheaper and faster. But that's an issue of (primarily financial) incentives, not sociocultural biases.
ragingrobot|4 years ago
carvking|4 years ago
Try this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLxZF_EWaLE
xg15|4 years ago
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GDC7|4 years ago
These are the typical exagerations of those who cannot mantain perspective .
These are the same people who scream "We are all gonna die!!!" on a plane during a small turbolence.
I wonder how would the author manage to function had she lived in the 1800s or the 1300s during the great plague.
She'd have offed herself before the plague would have a chance to infect her.
thinkingemote|4 years ago
This kind of apocalyptic thinking is also damaging to the birth rate "why have children in such a world". The irony here is that is literally how the world can end.
There's also a fallacy of the hinge of history. Everyone thinks they are living in the most important of times ever and they have always done throughout history.